http://news.yam.com/afp/international/200803/20080305655530.html
檔案：假預言家欺矇英情報界 占星可贏納粹
法新社╱F57陳昶佑 2008-03-05 18:50
（法新社倫敦四日電）根據今天解密的檔案，二次世界大戰期間，儘管一些情報首長嚴正提出異議，英國當局還是徵召一名冒牌匈牙利貴族，企圖利用占星術協助擊敗納粹德國。
自封為「現代諾斯特拉達姆斯」的戴沃爾，二戰期間擔任英國特別行動委員會（SOE）的宣傳人員；該委員會是一個個機密單位，負責從事敵後作戰任務。諾斯特拉達姆斯則是十六世紀的預言家和占星術大師。
長期以來外界都知道戴沃爾為英國政府工作，而他的專業程度也遭到占星學家質疑，但這些機密文件顯示了當時英國情報首長對於任命戴沃爾的反對程度。
戴沃爾宣稱納粹獨裁者希特勒可能非常相信占星術，可藉此擊敗他，但英國海外情報局（MI6，軍情六處）對於這樣的說法相當不以為然。
根據新公布的檔案，該局表示：「我們的高級官員認為，他無法相信有人竟然打算再次雇用這種危險的騙徒，雇用這種以兜售騙術營生的人。」
另一情報機構國家安全局（MI5，軍情五處）的探員則認為，戴沃爾是個局外人，「過去的經歷就算並非不可告人，也相當神秘」。
這名軍官說：「他的預言都沒實現，除了他預言義大利將參戰，不過當時他是在情勢已經很明朗的情況下才做出預言。」
戴沃爾在軍情五處的上司也表示憂心，認為不只是特別行動委員會首長漢伯洛，英國政府對於這位占星術士的建言也過份重視。
這位軍官寫道：「危險在於所有這種偽科學都是危險的，而且除非你派出追求完美、對一切事情抱持懷疑態度的人，或是派出意志非常堅定的人處理此事，否則可能沉溺於非常錯誤的觀點。」
戴沃爾一九零三年出生於柏林，本名羅尤斯．穆辛伊．沃爾，雙親為匈牙利籍；戴沃爾原先在德國靠著撰寫色情小說勉強度日，一九三五年希特勒加速清除猶太人，他因此逃來英國。
戴沃爾後來改名，自稱為匈牙利貴族後裔，將自己重新塑造為一位頗具聲望的占星師，靠著能說善道打進上流社會，同時也吸引政府的注意。
漢伯洛便認為戴沃爾「是一個了不起的傢伙」，而戴沃爾在寫給漢伯洛的備忘錄中提議「追蹤」希特勒的個人占星師克拉夫特，以了解希特勒獲得什麼建議。
戴沃爾告訴漢伯洛：「調查過去的事件，我發現希特勒掌權以來推動所有重大計畫，都要在『好的方位下』進行。」
戴沃爾說：「希特勒的『占卜組織』，實際上只是對於行星運轉趨向有所了解。」
他說：「從心理學觀點來看，這當然提供許多可能機會。在希特勒認為自己的方位不佳的時候發動攻擊，一定能讓他面臨某種挫敗。」
他說：「迫使他採取行動，對我們而言一定是優勢。」
但正在撰寫軍情五處正式史實的安德魯教授指出，漢伯洛和英國最高情報單位聯合情報委員會都誤信了戴沃爾的說法。他說，希特勒從不相信占星術，認為占星術完全是一派胡言。
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080304/world/britain_germany_hungary_history_wwii_1
Spies spooked by WWII astrology strategy: archives
Mon Mar 3, 7:23 PM
LONDON (AFP) - Britain drafted a bogus Hungarian nobleman to help defeat Nazi Germany using astrology, despite serious reservations from spy chiefs, according to declassified files released Tuesday.
Louis de Wohl, a self-styled "modern Nostradamus", worked as a propagandist during World War II for Britain's Special Operations Executive, a clandestine outfit that was responsible for operations behind enemy lines.
But while his work for the British government has long been known -- and his credentials questioned by astrologers -- the secret files reveal the extent to which the country's spymasters disapproved of the appointment.
Britain's overseas espionage service, MI6, was outraged at De Wohl's claim that dictator Adolf Hitler could be defeated by exploiting his supposed belief in astrology.
"One of our senior officers comments that he cannot believe that anyone is going to re-employ this dangerous charlatan and confidence trick-merchant," the agency said, according to the newly released files.
Another agent from the domestic intelligence agency, MI5, described De Wohl as an interloper with a "mysterious, if not murky, past" who revelled in his status as an army captain.
"None of his predictions materialised, except his forecast of Italy's entry to war, which he made at a time when this became quite patent," the officer added.
De Wohl's MI5 case officer also expressed concern that the astrologer's advice was being taken seriously, not least by SOE chief Charles Hambro.
"The danger is that all this sort of pseudo-science is most insidious, and, unless you have a complete sceptic or a very strong-minded man dealing with it, quite the wrong point of view may be indulged in," he wrote.
De Wohl, who was born Lajos Mucsinyi Wohl in Berlin in 1903 to Hungarian parents, scraped a living writing pulp fiction in Germany before fleeing to Britain in 1935 as Hitler's purge of Jews gathered pace.
Changing his name to Louis De Wohl and claiming to be the son of a Hungarian nobleman, he reinvented himself as an astrologer of some repute, inveigling his way into high society, where he attracted the attention of government.
In a memo to Hambro, who considered him "a perfectly splendid chap", De Wohl outlined a proposal to "shadow" the work of Hitler's personal astrologer, Karl Ernst Krafft, to find out what advice he was receiving.
"Checking up on the events of the past, I found that all major enterprises of Hitler since he came to power have been undertaken under 'good aspects'," he told Hambro.
"Hitler's 'divine intuitions' are in reality simply knowledge about planetary tendencies.
"This opens, of course, many possibilities from the psychological point of view. An attack against Hitler at a time when he knows that his aspects are bad will certainly find him prone to some amount of defeatism.
"To force his hand then would be a definitive advantage for us."
Professor Christopher Andrew, who is writing the official history of MI5, said both Hambra and Britain's most senior intelligence body, the Joint Intelligence Committee, had displayed a misplaced belief in De Wohl.
"Hitler regarded astrology as complete nonsense, but the belief that he really paid attention to horoscopes entered Whitehall," he said.
"The JIC realised there was something they couldn't understand about Hitler. He didn't behave like other people. One explanation -- it turned out to be completely wrong -- was that he was listening to astrologers."
本文於 修改第 1 次
本城市首頁
看回應文章
等級：8
